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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The organizational form of a literary work.






2. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






3. A character struggles against some outside force.






4. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






5. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






6. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






7. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






8. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






9. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






10. The main character of a literary work.






11. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






12. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






13. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






14. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






15. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






16. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






17. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






18. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






19. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






20. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






21. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






22. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






23. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






24. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






25. What a story or play is about.






26. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






27. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






28. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






29. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






30. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






31. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






32. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






33. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






34. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






35. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






36. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






37. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






38. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






39. A short saying with a moral.






40. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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41. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






42. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






43. The selection of words in a literary work.






44. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






45. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






46. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






47. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






48. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






49. The person who 'tells' the story.






50. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.